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  r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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  r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs.
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  r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser.
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  r83524 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:20:23 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace.  Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103.
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  r83525 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:36:24 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output.
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  r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Fix softspace relic.
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  r83527 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:48:46 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest.
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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  r83538 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:10:13 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses.
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  r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers.
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  r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove XXX comment that was displayed.
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  r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes.
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  r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove redundant information.
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  r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  r83560 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:16:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore.
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diff --git a/Lib/cProfile.py b/Lib/cProfile.py
index 5d04341..3e924ba 100755
--- a/Lib/cProfile.py
+++ b/Lib/cProfile.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
             result = prof.print_stats(sort)
     return result
 
-def runctx(statement, globals, locals, filename=None):
+def runctx(statement, globals, locals, filename=None, sort=-1):
     """Run statement under profiler, supplying your own globals and locals,
     optionally saving results in filename.
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
         if filename is not None:
             prof.dump_stats(filename)
         else:
-            result = prof.print_stats()
+            result = prof.print_stats(sort)
     return result
 
 # Backwards compatibility.
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@
     parser.add_option('-o', '--outfile', dest="outfile",
         help="Save stats to <outfile>", default=None)
     parser.add_option('-s', '--sort', dest="sort",
-        help="Sort order when printing to stdout, based on pstats.Stats class", default=-1)
+        help="Sort order when printing to stdout, based on pstats.Stats class",
+        default=-1)
 
     if not sys.argv[1:]:
         parser.print_usage()
@@ -178,14 +179,18 @@
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
     sys.argv[:] = args
 
-    if (len(sys.argv) > 0):
-        sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
-        fp = open(sys.argv[0])
-        try:
-            script = fp.read()
-        finally:
-            fp.close()
-        run('exec(%r)' % script, options.outfile, options.sort)
+    if len(args) > 0:
+        progname = args[0]
+        sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(progname))
+        with open(progname, 'rb') as fp:
+            code = compile(fp.read(), progname, 'exec')
+        globs = {
+            '__file__': progname,
+            '__name__': '__main__',
+            '__package__': None,
+            '__cached__': None,
+        }
+        runctx(code, globs, None, options.outfile, options.sort)
     else:
         parser.print_usage()
     return parser